Please explain to a rookie trucker like me why i need a CB radio.

Agreed, and it's not respective of national origin.

 

It’s cultural.

Look up cultural driving habits in India, lol.

Example; when they honk their horn it’s not in anger, it’s how they communicate.

 

Lol, Ireland

The "Wave": A subtle one-finger (middle finger) salute while keeping hands on the wheel is common to thank someone for letting you pass.

 

Kind of personal, but I wonder if you might be related to Ms. Elizabeth Miller, my old high school English teacher.
Memory takes me back to her just as I read your posts. Amazing..

 

True @MACK E-6 I was able to analyze my assigned native driver between Nuevo Laredo and Monterey. With the breaks to unload and rest the cattle, I was able to manage to drive the remaining miles to Vera Cruz..

 

Or Nurse Ratched

 

Well, just last night on 114 near jacksboro tx, 3:30 am. I was going south. Another truck went by going in the opposite direction. He asked if I had a radio. After I confirmed, he told me the was loose cattle on the road. Even tho I was vigilant, I underestimated the magnitude. I came down a hill into an entire herd of half grown , black cattle.i was going about 45 and braked hard because they were nearly invisible. I still clipped some poor animal in the head.i estimate there were perhaps one to two hundred. They were everywhere, going in all directions. A single cop was trying to spook them but it looked like cat-eye herding. We were proceeding side-by-side stopping and going walking speed. When I finally got clear (and it went on for miles) I saw first responders on the opposite side picking up a smashed suv. There were even guys on motorcycles going slowly through. I I hadn't been told on the radio, I would have hit a group of cows like bowling pins. I broke my headlight mount was all.

 

but how do you know the phone number of the other truck??

crystal ball, ??